Improvement in apparatus for distilling



P. KESSLER.

Alcohol Still.

Patented March l. 1859.

Nrrnn 'STATES ,Armar Frisia@ PETER KnssLnR, on BELLEVILLE, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENTIN APPARATUS FOR I'JISTILLING.

To CLZZ whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, PETER KEssLER, of Belleville, inthe county of St.AClair and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Distilling Apparatuses; and I do hereby declare thefollowing to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same,reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of thisspecication, in which-,-

Figure 1 represents a front elevation of a distilling apparatusconstructed according to my improvements. Fig. 2 is a vertical centralsection of my'doubler, (the vessel which I use for rectifying theliquor.)

Similar letters of reference indicate icorresponding parts in the twogures.

This invention consists in conducting the gaseous liquor from the stillinto ahollow cylin- \drical space which is partly iilled up by a conicalvessel filled with water, so that the impurities contained in the liquorare condensed by coming in contact with the cold sides of thewater-vessel, and the pure liquor may be drawn off by a pipe leading toa suitable cooler, the water-vessels being so arranged in the spacesurrounding the same that the .strength of the liquor may be determinedby the Vquantity of water contained in saidvessel, while at the sametime the condensed impuritiese., t-he low-wine-may be brought back tothe rst still by means of a faucet and without pumping. y

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my improvedapparatus, I will proceed to describe it.

Two stills, A and B, are placed in such re` lation to each other asisusual in distilling apparatuses of this kind, the beer contained in thestill A being heated by steam conducted to it by a pipe, C. The vaporsthus arising from the beer ascend through a pipe, D, to the still B,fromAwhich they enter a vessel, E, by means of a pipe, F. rllhis vessel isclosed at the top by a cup, G, the bottom of which has an opening, a,and a plate, H, placed on the top of the cup G, has another opening, b,just opposite the opening a.

`Another cylindrical vessel, l, is placed on the top of the vessel E,communicating with the same by means of the openings c and b, and thecirculation is further increased by a hollow cylinder, J, attached tothetop of the plate H, said cylinder having an open space, c, in its side,and being of such height as to reach to the bottom of a conical vessel,K, which iitsinto the cylindrical vessel I. The

- space L left between the outside of the vessel K and the inside of thevessel I is decreasing toward the top, and it runs out into a sharppoint, as clearly represented in Fig. 2. The gaseous liquor contained inthe vessel E ascends through the openings a and b and fills the space L,and if cold water is poured into the vessel K the impurities containedin the liquor are condensed. Vater is admitted to the vessel K by meansof a pipe, M, and a pipe, N, serves to carry off the surplus water, soas to prevent an overiiowing. It is obvious thatthe condensation takesplace more rapidly Atoward the top of the space L if the vessel K befilled with water up to the top,`

as the cold surface of the outside ofthe ves sel K increases while thecontentsI of the space L decrease, so that by 4putting more or less'cold water into the vessel K the strength of the liquor may beregulated. The condensed impurities-i. e.,'the low-wine-flow back to thevessel E through the openings a and b, and they are carried backto thestill A by means of afaucet, O, which is attached tothe vessel E closeto its bottom. By this arrangement the pumping out of the low-wine isavoided,and a great deal of trouble and labor are saved thereby; and asa certain quantity of goed spirits will always be contained in thelow-wine, the iiowing back into the still by this arrangement causes agreat saving, as much ofthe liquor contained in the low-wine as treatedin the usual way is lost, the lowf eseapes through a pipe, P, whichleads into a are arranged so as to have a tapering space, suitablecooler, Q, from which it is drawn off L, and an intermediate circulatingpassage,

into easks. G a b J c, between them7 substantially as and Whatelaim asmy invention, and desire to for the purposes herein set forth. Secure byLetters Patent, is- PETER KESSLER.

The employment of the stills A B and XVitnesses: i cooler Q, ineombinationwith the vessels E I H. SCHLETH, K, as described and shown,when said vessels THEODORE DAUTH. f

